| 词条 | Gary D. Robson |
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| image = Gary D. Robson.jpg | image_size = | caption = Robson in 2009 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Gary Douglas Robson | birth_date = {{birth date|1958|05|11|mf=y}} | birth_place = Poughkeepsie, New York | occupation = Author | genre = Nonfiction and Children's Nature/Science | notableworks = Who Pooped in the Park?, The Closed Captioning Handbook | spouse = Kathryn Robson | awards = | website = {{URL|garydrobson.com}} }} Gary D. Robson (May 11, 1958) is an American author from Red Lodge, Montana. He is best known for his children's picture book series entitled Who Pooped in the Park?, which teaches children about animal scat and tracks. The series currently comprises 20 books, mostly set in United States National Parks. The 20th book in the series was released in 2016, covering Central Park in New York City. Robson is also an expert in closed captioning and subtitling technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people. BiographyRobson was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1958 and grew up in Colorado, where he graduated from Boulder High School in 1976.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} He began writing for technical journals in 1984, and wrote a series of computer manuals before writing his first book in 1996 with Richard Sherman (a.k.a. Mr. Modem). He continued to write while working in the electronics industry until 2001, when he and his wife moved to Montana and purchased a bookstore.[1] He is also the publisher of the monthly alternative newspaper in Red Lodge, The Local Rag. Closed captioningCheetah International, the company founded by Robson and his wife,[2] began producing software and equipment for closed captioning in 1997, and Robson published articles[3] on the subject for a variety of publications, including the Journal of Court Reporting, Newswaves, and Nuts & Volts. He holds two patents related to closed captioning: U.S. Patent #7,360,234[4] (2008) and U.S. Patent #8,245,252 B2[5] (2012). He was presented with the Andrew Saks Engineering Award[6] for "outstanding contributions in improving visual accessibility to information via realtime captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans"[7] by Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. in 1997. He wrote three books about closed captioning, most notably The Closed Captioning Handbook, published [8] by Focal Press, then an imprint of Elsevier. He presented a TED Talk at TEDxBozeman in 2014 entitled, "Does closed captioning still serve deaf people?"[9] WorksChildren's picture booksThe Who Pooped in the Park? series is published by Farcountry Press[10] in Helena, Montana. Each book in the series focuses on the indigenous wildlife of a particular National Park or ecosystem in the United States. Robson has used two different illustrators. Elijah Brady Clark illustrated the first six books, and Robert Rath has illustrated the rest.
Tea Books
Closed captioning and related technologies
Other nonfiction
Awards and recognition
References1. ^Red Lodge Books: About Us 2. ^Cheetah International - Company Overview 3. ^Articles by Gary D. Robson 4. ^US Patent # 7,360,234. System, method, and computer program product for selective filtering of objectionable content from a program - Patents.com 5. ^Patent US8245252 - System, method, and computer program product for selective replacement of ... - Google Patents 6. ^1 [https://tdiforaccess.org/about_tdi.aspx?key=About%20TDI%28Awards-Past%20Recipients%29&select=AboutTDI “TDI Awards - Previous Winners”] 7. ^Author Biography for Gary D. Robson 8. ^Focal Press: Closed Captioning Handbook 9. ^"TEDxBozeman 2014 video: Does closed captioning still serve deaf people?" 10. ^Farcountry Press 11. ^“2014 Moonbeam Winners”. 12. ^“High Plains Book Award Finalists - 2014”. External links
6 : 1958 births|Living people|American children's writers|Writers from Montana|American male writers|People from Red Lodge, Montana |
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